WALL STREET
Market rally benefits chemical stocks . . . C&EN INDEX
OF STOCK
PRICES
Jan. 1954 opening
prices=100
Petro-Sulfur "Building Blocks" from Phillips in Commercial Quantities. MERCAPTANS
Typical Purity
wt. %
Ethyl Mercaptan jso-Propyl Mercaptan n-Propyl Mercaptan n-Butyl Mercaptan tert-Butyl Mercaptan tert-Amyl Mercaptan n-Hexyl Mercaptan n-Octyl Mercaptan tert-Octyl Mercaptans tert-Dodecyl Mercaptans tert-Tetradecyl Mercaptans tert-Hexadecyl Mercaptans Mixed Tertiary Mercaptans Cyclohexyl Mercaptan Dipentene Dimercaptan
99+ 98 99+ 98 98 98 96 98 96 97 94 82 94-98 99+ 98
MISCELLANEOUS
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. and pushes C&EN's indexes dramatically upward C&EN Indexes Big 7 chemicals Other 21 chemicals Drugs Petroleum Rubber
Year ago
Month
Latest week
143.1 266.8 853.8 299.1 441.1
144.2 225.0 719.5 312.1 416.9
153.4 246.6 772.5 334.7 434.9
Standard & Poor's 425 Industrials 404.0 370.0 392.0 Price/earnings ratio, chemicals 13.1 14.1 15.0 Dividend yield, chemicals 4.67% 4.64% 4.36% Companies that make up the C&EN Index of Stock Prices categories are: • Big 7—Allied Chemical, American Cyanamid, Celanese, Dow, Du Pont, Monsanto, and Union Carbide. • 21 Others-Air Products, Air Reduction, Atlas, Cabot, Chemetron, Commercial Solvents, Diamond Shamrock, Ethyl, GAF, Grace, Hercules, Inmont, Mallinckrodt, Nalco, National Starch, Pennwalt, Reichhold, Rohm and Haas, Stauffer, Sun Chemical, and Witco. • Drugs-Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products, Merck, Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Richardson-Merrell, Schering, Smith Kline & French, Sterling, and Upjohn. • Petroleum-Atlantic Richfield, Continental Oil, Gulf Oil, Mobil Oil, Phillips, Shell Oil, Standard Oil (Calif.), Standard Oil (Ind.), Standard Oil (N.J.), Sun Oil, Texaco, and Union Oil of California. • RubberFirestone, General Tire, Goodrich, Goodyear, and Uniroyal.
Ethyl Sulfide n-Butyl Sulfide tert-Butyl Disulfide . . Sulfolane Sulfolene Ethylthioethanol
96-99 96 94 99+ 99
OTHER PETRO-SULFUR COMPOUNDS: If you don't see what you need above, let us know. We'll be happy to discuss your specific requirements. Contact: Special Products Div. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY Bartlesville, Okla. 74003 Phone: 918 336-6600
PHILLIPS
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At Phillips 66 it's performance that counts
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